Thursday, January 18, 2018 • by Brooke Frederickson, RMISA

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont.—Denver’s Dag Trolleboe and Colorado’s Hedda Baangman won the women’s and men’s classic races on Thursday at the Utah Invitational.

Denver has a slight overall lead in the team standings with 476 points, followed closely by Colorado (470). Utah (417.5), Montana State (410.5) and New Mexico (326) round out the top five. Alaska Anchorage is sixth (259) with Westminster College seventh (224) and Alaska Fairbanks eighth (108).

The Utah Invitational (which was moved from Utah due to local snow conditions) concludes on Friday with the men’s 20-km and women’s 15-km freestyle races, beginning at 9:30 a.m. MT. Follow the races here:

108 points in the most that any team has scored in a single race this year. It is the second time that CU’s women’s Nordic team has scored over 100 points in a race. The only other team to score over 100 points this year in a race is Denver’s alpine women.

Colorado’s Hedda Baangman is the first two-race winner in women’s Nordic this year. She has won both classic races held this year.

Colorado’s Petra Hyncicova has finished on the podium in every race.

Utah’s Guro Jordheim has three podium finishes this year and four top five finishes.

Colorado’s Anne Siri Lervick and Christina Rolandsen each have two top-five finishes this year.

Utah’s Leah Lange earned her first career top-10 finish. She is in her second season at Utah.

Denver’s Dag Trolleboe won his second race of the season. He has been in the top five in every race. Only two skiers have won races this year in men’s Nordic, Trolleboe and Utah’s Martin Bergstroem (three wins).

Bergstroem has been in the top five in every race with four podium finishes.

Colorado’s Petter Reistad earned his second podium finish of the year and his third top-five finish.